I've seen people saying the money that went on the mansion could and should have gone to bailing out protesters, paying legal fees, paying for funerals and so on and I can't say I disagree.What is your honest opinion in this sort thing @version
I've seen people saying the money that went on the mansion could and should have gone to bailing out protesters, paying legal fees, paying for funerals and so on and I can't say I disagree.What is your honest opinion in this sort thing @version
So cynical, I think they probably got every single incident. It's kinda like when that guy off Blue Peter got caught taking cocaine, turns out it was the very first time he tried it and he didn't like it at all and swore that he would never do it again. So unlucky to get busted in those circumstances, although actually - would you believe it - the exact same thing happened to Kate Moss as well, eventually after years of resisting the terrible pressure she faced daily in the fashion world, she finally gave in and had one tiny little bump - which I'm reliably informed she found so disagreeable that she had just resolved that it would be her first and last experiment with any drugs of any kind when, with the cruellest of ironies, she discovered that she had been photographed.the obvious question: how many hundreds/thousands of similar police brutalities were never recorded?
Do Leo and Shaka really meet up and hang out on the Upper East Side or these glamourous sounding places that they so casually throw around? I'm jealous, I want to be at that meeting. Even if it doesn't happen, I want it to happen so I can be jealous.
True NYC hipsters would meet up in tofuspace or something, surely?Have you ever met in meatspace though?
Aside - why do these hipster places eschew capitals like that?
i've been wondering how long i can deliberately leave this post without responding@shakahislop blew off my friend's birthday party in Brooklyn (to go to the Biennial!) a couple of weeks ago, he's been a bit cold and distant since there. perhaps you've noticed the uncomfortable silence when I tag him in a comment, leaving me hanging. I perhaps wouldn't put it on the level of being ghosted, not yet anyway. maybe he'll come around.
it hasn't happened........yetHave you ever met in meatspace though?
Aside - why do these hipster places eschew capitals like that?
My intuition would be that you get higher variance in small, tight-knit units like this, because less guys + less bureaucratic oversight means the squad members/local leadership has outsized influence over culture. That these units can be total havens for really high quality police work, and also total corrupt shit shows if a critical mass of bad eggs are present.Whenever these police (and military) units are created, they inevitably seem to behave even worse than the regular lot.
I'd love to see you or anyone point to any of these nominally elite anti-gang/drug/violent crime special units that have done "really high quality police work", because the list of corrupt and brutal shitshows is long:My intuition would be that you get higher variance in small, tight-knit units like this, because less guys + less bureaucratic oversight means the squad members/local leadership has outsized influence over culture. That these units can be total havens for really high quality police work, and also total corrupt shit shows if a critical mass of bad eggs are present.
Essentially there is a wealth of evidence that if you give cops the power to kick in doors and bust heads with little oversight, they usually end up becoming criminals themselves, robbing drug dealers/dealing themselves, beating and/or extorting suspects, etc
There are new task forces spun up every day in this country. Tens of thousands have existed in this country. Probably hundreds of thousands. The sample selection bias as to which groups go viral is obvious; why would we have heard about a competent group of cops? The variance point is so sociologically obvious as to almost go without saying, let alone defending; it's a big part of the localism vs federalism conflict. If you're gonna stick your head in the sand and pretend you don't understand what I'm saying, be my guest.I'd love to see you or anyone point to any of these nominally elite anti-gang/drug/violent crime special units that have done "really high quality police work", because the list of corrupt and brutal shitshows is long:
-CRASH in L.A.
-NYPD's Street Crimes Unit
-Special Operations Section aka Mobile Strike Force here in Chicago
-Gun Trace Task Force in Baltimore (i.e. the topic of David Simon's latest miniseries)
-SCORPION
And so on